From the DaVinci Institute:

We have put together ten key trends that are affecting the development of the next generation library. Rest assured that these are not the only trends, but ones that have been selected to give clear insight into the rapidly changing technologies and equally fast changing mindset of library patrons.

Read the rest here.

Looking at templates, I came across a whole lot of what looked like Latin, starting with the text “Lorem Ipsum…”. Very brief research led me here, which offers an awesome explanation, as well as a Lorem Ipsum generator.

Neat!

More links in the eternal quest for a classy, sexy, working template.

Blogger-Templates - Of the templates listed, I particularly like this one. He also has some good tips, tricks, and hacks listed, so it’s worth checking even if you’re happy with your current template.

Not completely blog-related, but this dude’s art rocks my face off.

Isnaini Dot Com has some gorgeous templates. Half of them are a little off on the layout, which is really unfortunate, but I may tool around with them a bit and see what I can come up with. Dude has a second template site here.

Beccary has some simple, elegant, kick-ass work going on, including my favorite so far.

I know Nick will like the name. Eris Design has a kick-ass template creator, and some nice stuff. It’s a definite finalist. I like this one particularly.

I’m gonna go play with these for a bit, but perhaps I’ll update some more links later. Ciao!